Broken arm, surgery, & pins



The second weekend of July we headed to Idaho (again!) for my brother Jordan's wedding. We stayed with G&G Hymas and decided to get out for some fresh air. We found a park and were letting the kids play. Tony, ny other brother, was in town for the wedding and was helping Carter learn to swing his legs to get momentum to cross the monkey bars. He swung too hard and fell off landing on his arm. I watched from behind and saw his elbow bend the opposite way of which an elbow should bend! UGH! We got him to a small clinic in Rigby for some x rays. They tried to tell me only his wrist was broken, but i requested another x ray of his arm and lo and behold.....



It was cracked right in half! If you look close you can see about a half inch gap right above his elbow.

In his wrist, he had a buckle fracture in his ulna and radius. They assured us the wrist fracture was nothing to worry about, but were pretty sure that his elbow would need surgery....and pins!

They called Idaho Falls ER and told them we were on the way. This is shortly after we arrived in Idaho Falls and he had gotten some morphine. Kids are funny on drugs!

By 6 pm he was in surgery. What should have been a 15 minute surgery turned into an hour surgery. I was going bazurk! Finally the doc immerged with the above picture. He explained that while he was setting it the rest of the bone broke and it made it much harder to set.

By 8 he was settled in his room and very groggy. Poor little guy! I think I shed more tears than anyone that day, including him. Everyone kept saying how tough he was because he never flinched in pain or cried!

We made it out of the hospital by midnight and here is our little man at the wedding reception next day! What a trooper he was! He had a soft splint on for 2 weeks.

Then we made another trip to Idaho Falls to get his cast. He was smiling at first...

but got a little nervous when he saw his pins

Here he is in his new cast!

There is a little window cut in his cast for the pins that we have to clean every day. They look so gross! But they will come out in 2 weeks and I cant wait! (Neither can he)
Overall he's been a trooper for everything! He hasnt needed pain meds and it hasnt slowed him down hardly at all. It's amazing how kids can bounce back so quick from anything.